Set includes a bundle of 50 stalks, with a spare
one,
plus an instruction card, a colorful hand-woven tie, and a pouch.

Yarrow Stalks
for use with theI Ching

Hand-crafted by Jane
English

While many people use a set of 3 coins when they consult the
ancient Chinese oracle, the I Ching, the traditional method
was to use yarrow sticks. With the stalks it takes about 15 minutes
to find the hexagram. This longer period gives one time to collect
oneself and become more open to what the oracle will mirror to
you. Back in the 1970's, my late husband, Gia-fu Feng, gave me
these instructions on how to use the yarrow
stalks.

There is a lot of I
Ching information on a website in Great Britain, including
book reviews
that can help you find a translation you resonate with -- some
of the older European translations have a rather patriarchal
perspective.

When I first started making sets of yarrow stalks I used yarrow
that grew in my yard at the foot of Mount Shasta in far northern
California. Now I harvest some yarrow near my new home in Vermont
and receive some from my herbalist friends at Healing
Spirits Herb Farm in the Finger Lakes Region of upstate New
York. Each set of 50 stalks was gathered and trimmed by hand.
I weave the ties on an inkle loom and
sew the pouches on my machine.

The stalks, ties and pouches are not mass-produced and vary
somewhat.
Please contact Jane by email jane@eheart.com
to make your order.

Indicate your preferences for:

1 - extra sturdy or regular sticks (extra sturdy for
big hands -- my own stalks are lighter than the regular and have
lasted 30 years so far). The stalks are about 8 inches long.
While some are green for the first year or so, they all age to
a warm wood-color.

3 - three or four of your favorite colors, both for
the hand-woven stalk tie and for the pouch (include tan, brown,
grey, black, and white as possible choices), as well as colors
you don't want me to use. Or let me surprise you with the colors!

Cost: $38.00 for stalks with woven tie, pouch, and
instruction card

Postage and handling for one set (postage rates as
of January 2015)

priority mail

1st class package (slower)

USA

$6

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Canada or Mexico

$21

$11

Other countries

$25

$16

Send check or money order to Jane English, PO Box 90, East
Calais, VT 05650or
Make a Paypal payment to jane@eheart.com

The stalk sets are hand crafted and I enjoy completing these
sales myself. I do not take credit cards directly, but a personal
check or a money order will suit me fine. The leisurely pace
of ordering by mail goes along with how using the yarrow stalks
is more leisurely than the I Ching coin method of a few quick
tosses!